Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Who's Worst in Child Poverty?

In the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development -- a group of the wealthiest countries in the world a report was done by UNICEF's Innocenti Research Center in Florence, Italy to determine who' the best and worst concerning child poverty and based its findings on the number of children growing up in households with an income less than half the national median.

Rated the best were Denmark, at 2.4 percent; Finland, at 2.8 percent; Norway, at 3.4 percent and Sweden, at 4.2 percent. And at the bottom end of the table were Mexico, at 27.7 percent, and the United States, at 21.9 percent. Somehow I don't think that's going to improve under this administration. No Child Left Behind?

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